pommie
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 6
/pɒmi/
Definition of pommie
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa, colloquial, pejorative, sometimes)An English immigrant; a pom.
““It′ll be a long time before I do that,” the pilot said grimly. “She′s my Queen as well as yours, you know. I′m not a bloody Pommie.”[…]“Too right, it′s difficult,” the Australian said. And then he added, “All Pommies aren′t bloody. I used that as a kind of figure of speech.””
“A Pommie. They were sending him to England to work with a Pommie. After all that he had done for this country they were shipping him off to a cold, rain-infested, windy little isle to work a case with a Pommie.”
“There are a lot of Pommies in Australia; travelling round, looking for work, and Dad reckoned you could pay them peanuts.[…]If Sissy couldn′t go back to school, I thought she should help out more, then we wouldn′t have to hire a Pommie house girl.”
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noun
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(Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa, colloquial, pejorative, sometimes)An English immigrant; a pom.
““It′ll be a long time before I do that,” the pilot said grimly. “She′s my Queen as well as yours, you know. I′m not a bloody Pommie.”[…]“Too right, it′s difficult,” the Australian said. And then he added, “All Pommies aren′t bloody. I used that as a kind of figure of speech.””
“A Pommie. They were sending him to England to work with a Pommie. After all that he had done for this country they were shipping him off to a cold, rain-infested, windy little isle to work a case with a Pommie.”
“There are a lot of Pommies in Australia; travelling round, looking for work, and Dad reckoned you could pay them peanuts.[…]If Sissy couldn′t go back to school, I thought she should help out more, then we wouldn′t have to hire a Pommie house girl.”
adj
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(Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa, derogatory, not-comparable, sometimes)English; British.
“See citations at pommy.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From pom + -ie (“diminutive suffix”). Australian from 1912.
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